REDDING, Calif. – A woman who crashed into a line of stopped vehicles while text-messaging on her cell phone has been sentenced to six years in a California prison for killing a woman in one of the vehicles.Throw away the fucking keys...
Deborah Matis-Engle was sentenced Friday by a judge in Redding, Calif.
Investigators said Deborah Matis-Engle was speeding and text messaging when she slammed into the vehicles stopped at a construction zone in August 2007.
Shasta County prosecutor Stephanie Bridgett said the 49-year-old woman had paid several bills by cell phone in the moments before the crash.
She was in the middle of one of those transactions when she struck a vehicle that burst into flames, killing 46-year-old Petra Winn.
Defense attorney Jeffrey Stotter said he will appeal.
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4 comments:
And we thought rolling a joint while driving was hard. Geez.
Definitely much easier to roll a joint and drive than text!!!! Woohoo!
The hardest part was steering with your knees.
I usually abjured rolling in traffic, too, as it seemed 1) too obvious, and 2) too distracting.
Betcha her first reaction was 'bother, made me make another typo'
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